Word: crompton
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...Crompton came to Harvard in 1970, and gave the MCZ a new direction toward greater integration with undergraduate teaching...
...ascension of the South African Nationalists in 1949 had brought in a system of state-backed racism that would soon make that country uniquely infamous and Crompton increasingly uncomfortable with his homeland...
Then a widower, Crompton married his current wife Ann while working in Cape Town, bringing her three children into his family as well and making, in Ann's words, "every meal like a dinner party...
...Crompton left Cape Town with his family in 1964 to run Yale's Peabody Museum, joining other South African expatriates in fleeing "like rats leaving a sinking ship." He says that he found a warmer welcome in another nation of former British subjects...
...colonial, you have to suffer under British arrogance," Crompton says. "Coming to the States was like meeting other colonials-the atmosphere was so much more relaxed, friendly and less formal...